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Australian mining magnate and business billionaire Andrew Forrest announced on Monday that he was giving away 400 million AU dollars (298 million U.S. dollars), in what will be the largest philanthropic donation by a living person in the country's history.

President Rodrigo Duterte, who has overseen a deadly campaign to eradicate drug use in the Philippines, has now ordered a strict public ban on smoking and called on citizens to help local authorities apprehend smokers.